The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent a written warning about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012, long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and maimed hundreds, according to a senior Saudi government official with direct knowledge of the document. The Saudi warning, the official told MailOnline, was separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence in 2011, and was based on human intelligence developed independently in Yemen. Citing security concerns, the Saudi government also denied an entry visa to the elder Tsarnaev brother in December 2011, when he hoped to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. Tsarnaev's plans to visit Saudi Arabia have not been previously disclosed.

Was it preventable? A senior Saudi official says his country warned the U.S. about Tamerlane Tsarnaev in 2012, advising the federal government that he planned an attack on a major U.S. city

Did she know? Janet Napolitano (R) sits atop the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that allegedly received a detailed letter from the Saudi kingdom about Tsarnaev (L) and three Pakistani jihadis The Saudis' warning to the U.S. government was also shared with the British government. 'It was very specific and warned that 'something was going to happen in a major U.S. city,' the Saudi official said during an extensive interview. It 'did name Tamerlan specifically,' he added. The 'government-to-government' letter, which he said was sent to the Department of Homeland Security at the highest level, did not name Boston or suggest a date for his planned attack.

I think you are right. The reason is found in your second paragraph concerning the “real” news. It actually is more impactful to most people, because most people are in thrall to entertainment, and have lost the ability to resist. They are conditioned, and corrected, and corrupted. It’s all about the treats and fantasy.

For most people, the real world is ignored in favor of the iphone and hdmi. There is no future, there is no responsibility. We are a weak and disarmed society.

People don’t change until they have to. Give the treats and they will follow.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Russia next week to meet Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The talks are expected to touch on the attack in Boston and a host of bilateral tensions. The US and Russia are at odds on Syria, Iran and missile defense among other issues.

True. The Saudis do track terrorists and have kicked out the Muslim Brotherhood from setting up shop in their country. This report from the Carnegie Endowment covers Saudi “cooperation” with the US in fighting terrorism. The joker in that deck is that the terrorists of interest to the Saudis generally turnout to be a threat to the Saudi royal family. They are either Shia (the Saudis are Sunni) or Sunni/Wahhabi terrorists who think the Saudi regime is not the hard-line Islamists they should be.

However, while the Saudi Royal family has “cooperated” with US intelligence agencies, they have at the same time, as this report from Money Jihad shows, long been a financial supporter of jihadist movements worldwide including financial support for radical Mosques and Imams. In fact, money supporting jihadist movements in North Caucasus (think Chechnya, Boston Bombers) traces back to Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden. Moreover, they continue to support the Muslim Brotherhood - they just don’t want them in the neighborhood.

Was it preventable? A senior Saudi official says his country warned the U.S. about Tamerlane Tsarnaev in 2012, advising the federal government that he planned an attack on a major U.S. city

Did she know? Janet Napolitano (R) sits atop the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that allegedly received a detailed letter from the Saudi kingdom about Tsarnaev (L) and three Pakistani jihadis The Saudis' warning to the U.S. government was also shared with the British government. 'It was very specific and warned that 'something was going to happen in a major U.S. city,' the Saudi official said during an extensive interview. It 'did name Tamerlan specifically,' he added. The 'government-to-government' letter, which he said was sent to the Department of Homeland Security at the highest level, did not name Boston or suggest a date for his planned attack.

The Saudis and Russians are more concerned about the safety of Americans than Big Ugly LesboSis, Holder and their blood brother, the Obozo.

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posted on 05/01/2013 7:23:10 AM PDT
by Grampa Dave
(I'm afraid to go visit any American college because of all the foreign students with bombs.)

Well, the only way the Saudi govt would even begin to know about this guy, is if the guy was dealing with ‘other’ terrorists. So, there’s obviously a ‘group’ running around of other ‘collaborators’ and/or dangerous types connected with this POS!

Only way that Big Sis would not know about this is if we have Islamist moles in the DHS..which we suspect we do...still, she and Obama are responsible for hiring them and turning the agency into a PC enemy within agency.

Bottom line..no matter how they try to spin this news if true...looks bad..very, very bad.

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posted on 05/01/2013 7:40:36 AM PDT
by penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)

“When you look at how many security.intel briefings Obama blew off, he has plausible deniability with this. I hate saying it. But he does.

And that is exactly WHY he blew off that many intel briefings.”

I totally agree and that’s what I was trying to say in my post - but you said it more concisely - I knew there was a term for it, but couldn’t remember “plausible deniability” (not enough coffee when I posted ;-)

I believe that is the reason he stays out of many briefings, etc. - if he knows nothing/hasn’t heard about it, then he can appear to keep his hands clean. It would not surprise me in the least if Valerie knew about it (and many other things). I’ve never believed that the Won is as smart as the LSM and Dems want us to believe - - he’s “cool” so everyone (well, 47%) thinks he’s great. He’s a tool puppet run by higher ups (IMHO Soros and/or commie org (basically same thing)) that can read a teleprompter and has “star quality” because he’s “cool” and Moochelle ma Belle has “great arms” (bleh!).

It’s not complicated. The regime lies; they lie all the time; they are incompetent and they lie to cover their incompetency. What is so sad is, democrip voters like that characteristic in their democrip leadership!

What elected Repub is going to stand tall and proud, tall, proud and self-secure that he (or she) is doing the right thing?

Who, and when, will they say the following:

“Ladies of Gentlemen of the Press, Citizens of the United States....

I call this press conference on behalf of my fellow Senators of both parties (say....they got Lieberman, for example, to vote with them....like the Dems call “bi-partisan”) have decided it is time to launch an impeach motion against President Obama.

Our reasons are as follows:
....insert your post here....

We have a President who has refuse to act to save American lives in Benghazi and now we learn this administration knew about the Boston bomber and did nothing.

For that inaction we have dead, crippled and maimed Americans.

We then discover that these Russian brothers were paid and supported by the American government!

This is more than our country can bear. Way more than we need bear.”

So okay...Boehner going to say the above?

Mumbles McConnell?

THAT’S A BIGGER PROBLEM than this traitorous president and his Judicial henchman....good looking black guy, forget his name as I write in haste....

Jarret IS our President. That sounds like tinfoil I know. But she makes all the calls as we have seen with the Bin Ladin stalling and he stays protected because he only ‘knows’ what she tells him. Since she is unelected and covered by exec privilege, it’s a perfect circle to keep him scot free.

The facts are there. People just refuse to believe it’s really that insane.

...Saudi Arabia sent a ‘written warning’ naming Tamerlan specifically, advising the federal government, (at the highest level)....they then sent the top guy (?) to meet personally with the president.

...The Intelligence was ‘very specific’ that ‘something was going to happen in a major U.S. city”.......Saudi officials believed American authorities should be inspecting packages that came to Tsarnaev in the mail in order to search for bomb-making components.

...Yemen-based sources said militants referred to Tamerlan dismissively as The Volunteer.......”He was a gung-ho, self motivated jihadi who wasn't tasked by a larger group”. ...The Pres. dismissed the idea that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was likely trained by al Qaeda while he was outside the United States last year.

...The written warning also allegedly named three Pakistanis who may be of interest to ‘British authorities’.... the two governments (Saudi/Britain)received the same information.

...Warning was based on human intelligence from Yemen, separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence (in 2011)...

...Social networking ties brought Tsarnaev to the attention of Russian security services for the first time (in late 2010)

...Russian agents placed the Tsarnaev under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year (2012),.. then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared (3 DAYS LATER) after police killed a Canadian jihadist. , ...Saudi government also denied Tamerlan an entry visa (Dec. 2011) to make a pilgrimage to Mecca....rejected application came (one month) before he traveled to Russia, where U.S. intelligence sources believe he acquired training enabling him to construct and detonate the bombs.

...A DHS official denied that the agency received any such warning from Saudi intelligence about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.......The White House took a similar view..... ‘We and other relevant U.S. government agencies have no record of such a letter being received,’... said Caitlin Hayden, a spokesperson for the presidents National Security Council.

“When the Russians  who had no problem funneling money to violent dictator Saddam Hussein and indirectly funding al Qaeda in the oil for food scandal....are more worried about radical Islamists than we are.... you know something is amiss within our government.”

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